Executive Order 10416 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)
Executive Order 10416—Amendment of Executive Orders No. 10251 and No. 10282, Suspending the Eight-Hour Law as to Certain Laborers and Mechanics Employed by the Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior Repectively
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This executive order, signed by President Harry S Truman on 1952-12-02, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Amendment of Executive Orders No. 10251 and No. 10282, Suspending the Eight-Hour Law as to Certain Laborers and Mechanics Employed by the Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior Repectively." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.
Constitutional Assessment: Scrutinized through Article II, Section 2, this action exercises the President's constitutional role as Commander in Chief. Early Framers recognized broad executive discretion in commanding military forces during conflict, provided it remains bounded by congressional declarations and respects civilian domestic courts.
Key Directives & Operative Actions
▪340, as amended by the act of March 3, 1913, 37 Stat.
▪321), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No.
Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted
🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments
🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants
🏛️ Private Citizens & Property Owners
Total Words
190
1,025 characters
Estimated Read Time
1 min
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Flesch-Kincaid
12.4
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
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Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations
Exec. Order No. 10416, Harry S Truman (Dec 2, 1952). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-10416-amendment-executive-orders-no-10251-and-no-10282-suspending-the.
Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of August 1, 1892, 27 Stat. 340, as amended by the act of March 3, 1913, 37 Stat. 726 (40 U.S.C. 321), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 10251 of June 7, 1951, and Executive Order No. 10282 of August 29, 1951, suspending the eight-hour law with respect to laborers and mechanics employed by the Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior, respectively, on public work essential to the national defense, be, and they are hereby, amended as follows: The provisio in the penultimate paragraph of each of the said orders fixing the rate of pay for overtime thereunder is amended to read as follows: "Provided, that the wages of all laborers and mechanics so employed shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours of work with overtime to be paid at a rate not less than time and one-half for all hours of work in excess of eight hour in any one day." HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, December 2, 1952
